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3rd June 2024 / Competitiveness / Digital Agenda


AI in manufacturing

The applications using artificial intelligence (AI) have been spreading from consumers to businesses, boosting productivity and strengthening development.

29th May 2024 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Czech Court denies copyright Protection of AI-Generated Work in First Ever Ruling

In the first Czech case on copyright and AI, the Prague Municipal Court (“Court”) has refused to recognise copyright protection of an AI-generated image. In a very brief decision, the Court found an absence of enforceable rights on the claimant’s part and ruled out copyright protection for AI-generated output as a matter of principle. 

See our summary and key takeaways below. 

28th May 2024 / Competitiveness / Transport, Infrastructure and Tourism


Stronger Summer Season than Last Year; The Airport Is to Handle over Three and a Half Million Passengers during the Holidays

Prague Airport is preparing for a strong summer season. According to current forecasts, more than three and a half million passengers are to be handled during the holidays, to whom the proven ten steps to ensure their smooth and trouble-free journey through the airport will be made available once again. The emphasis is mainly on arriving at the airport on time and using self-service check-in options.

23rd May 2024 / Competitiveness / Business and Industry


Passerinvest Group is the first in Prague this year to begin the construction of a new office or multi-functional building, Hila in Prague’s Brumlovka. It will offer offices, shops and rental flats

Today, Passerinvest Group symbolically launched the construction of the multifunctional Hila building in Brumlovka, Prague 4. Upon its completion in the spring of 2027, the building will provide a combination of approximately 20,500 m² of offices for rent (on the 2nd to 8th storeys), 71 rental flats (on the 9th to 15th storeys) and retail spaces of 2000 m² on the ground floor. All within a single building. The building will also offer spacious terraces for office users and balconies with beautiful views for the residents. The Hila building will completely fulfil the company’s ESG strategies and will be equipped with modern technologies, from which the cooling and heating system with radiant ceilings, which represents the most modern concept of indoor climate control, for example, is worth mentioning. Thanks to the well-designed combination with the planned heat pumps, it will be a highly efficient and economical design to operate. The renowned studio Aulík Fišer architekti is behind the architectural design of the project; the construction contractor is GEMO. The owner and investor of the building is Passerinvest Group.

21st May 2024 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Digitalization of labor law: Electronic service of process by the employer

A view at the new requirements for the successful electronic delivery of notices to the employee by the employer.

Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy

  1. Transition to High-Tech Manufacturing and Exports
  2. The City Campus as Idea Factory
  3. Government Programs and Processes That Drive Innovation
  4. Government as a Competitive Advantage, including Digitization

Advocacy Priorities for 2023 
 
Technology, People, Infrastructure

 

Actions Recommended in Areas:

1. Establishing Policy Objectives for Research.

2. Research Investment and Cooperation. Big Bets (Key Technology Projects).

3. Establishing Databases for Tracking Public Policy Outcomes.

4. Public Procurement as an Innovation Tool.

5. Immigration of STEM Talents.

6. Digitization of Immigration. 

7. Adult Reskilling and Upskilling.

8. Digitization of Land Use.

9. Infrastructure Development, including Technology Parks.

 

 

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